Thursday, February 5, 2009

Layers*

The city is composed of objects and events, arguably many more things, but also arguably only two inseparable entities, the bodies of, and the events that unfold. To explain, a tree is a body and a logger is a body. The act of the logger cutting down the tree is the event that changes or alters the place. I have been using the word layers to describe my work. However, I have yet to personally qualify what the layers are, or what the respective layers mean. What are the layers of place? I suppose the layers of place are subjective and personal, possibly scientific or poetic? How can you demonstrate the layered quality of a place with video? How do you bring poetics and science to the logger cutting down the tree? What are the layers of that specific event?

1 comment:

You bring up an interesting point about representing space in layers of subjective/personal. Taking that a step further, is it possible to represent layers in terms of subjective/objective? Is it possible to separate the two conditions?

The way we have been layering space lately is through the passage of time; or layering space by the events that take place. I feel that through film, this is one of the most informative ways to analyze a space.